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IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR
“I vow to you, Adolf Hitler, as führer and chancellor of the
German Reich, loyalty and bravery,” declare SS troops at
their annual midnight swearing-in ceremony. They are
stood outside the Feldherrnhalle in Munich, the former
Bavarian Defence Ministry. The Nazis tried to storm
it to seize power on 9 November 1923. Ten years
later, Hitler turned the site into a memorial
to the 16 Nazis shot by police during the
so-called Beer Hall Putsch.
1938

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